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Hello, everyone---Here's another Christie talkie to add to the "existing" list: At least reel two of HOT LEMONADE (29), with Johnny Arthur, Louise Fazenda, and Walter Hiers. ----Cole Johnson.

Joe Moore wrote:Nice job, Frank.

I wonder how many of these films are extant? I know I've only seen a few of them.

Joe Moore

I have prints of Faro Nell, Dangerous Females (both common), The Sleeping Porch (now relatively common) and also He Did His Best and His Honor, The Mayor (old original prints--that I believe are relatively rare)

Here's a still from The Sleeping Porch (1929) with Raymond Griffith and Barbara Leonard.

I don't believe Joe Franklin passed on...he used to show some of the Paramount Christies (that's how I saw POST MORTEMS on his "Memory Lane" TV show in the 1960s). Joe had a huge collection of shorts that he picked up for peanuts from the Select Film Library: Hal Roach Pathes like DON KEY, SON OF BURRO and STARVATION BLUES, almost the entire run of the Sennett "Smith Family" series, Lloyd Hamilton Educational talkies, etcetera. In the late 1970s Franklin was still showing films but he may have gotten his wrist slapped, running Screen Gems prints of non-Stooge Columbias without clearance (Rohauer snitched on him to Alan Twyman, who alerted whomever owned those shorts at that time).

I checked my 1936 MEET THE MISSUS titled print and the opening shot is the one pictured of Gleason trying to pick up a chorus girl.

SAILORS BEWARE is a hilarious 1933 precode Phil Ryan Paramount directed by Del Lord. Sailors Pallette & Catlett are chased by Dorothy Granger's gang for a winning lottery ticket. See my IMDb review for more details. NOTE: Filming was at the same lake as Men O'War. One of my favorite 2 reelers.

ADAM'S EVE is a funny 1929 precode Christie Paramount starring Johnny Arthur. After drinking too much, Johnny ends up in the wrong apt.
NOTE: This is the only Christie with background music throughout that I've ever seen from the 1929-30 barren track period.